Impression of Amélie de Montfort
Rapidly sketched, the model delivers the basics of the master’s intense attachment to his fiancée, a young aristocrat, first glimpsed at a ball. The marriage took place in 1869 but soon soured owing to his morbid, irrational suspicions of infidelity on her part.
Credit: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1989
c. 1867-69
Terracotta
8.0 x 3.0 in
1989.289.2
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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